Customize Your Dashboard

Your
dashboard
shows you – at a glance – the information that is most important to you across projects, teams, and workspaces. You may use your dashboard as your primary place to work in CA Agile Central where you make updates, get status, and view charts.

When you first log into CA Agile Central, you may have been asked to identify your role. CA Agile Central uses this information to set up a default dashboard for you. You can always add apps from other roles to your dashboard, and you can customize your dashboard at any time.

Add Apps to Your Dashboard

You can customize your dashboard by selecting the Actions gear drop-down menu. You then have the option to add an app or change the layout of the dashboard.

The dashboard is similar to a
custom page
with a few minor differences:

You cannot create multiple dashboards, but you can create multiple custom pages.

The dashboard is always located under the Home
tab
, whereas custom pages may be place under any tab in CA Agile Central.

You cannot copy a dashboard, but you can create multiple copies of a custom page.

Custom pages may be private or shared with all users in a workspace.

Learn more about the features of custom pages, including how to create, edit, and share pages.

App Basics

Use the gear icon at the top of each app to adjust settings or remove the app:

Move Apps

Select the the top bar of the app and drag the app into one of the columns. You can drag the app above or below any app that is currently in the column you are moving it to.

Edit Settings

Each app has its own settings menu. Select the gear icon at the top of the app and select Settings.

Use the Project section to select which projects to collect data from. The Follow Global Project Setting option will use the settings from the Project drop-down located in the upper-left corner of CA Agile Central.

The options present in the settings menu will vary based on the app. To view available settings and features for an app, select the name in the App Catalog to go to the app's help page.

Delete Apps

Select the gear icon at the top of the app and select Delete App.

Build Custom Queries

The Custom List and other apps provide the Queryfield
in the settings menu. With this field, you may build custom queries that filter work items based on entries in various fields.

View Custom Code

The Custom HTML app is used to host
custom app
code. To view your custom source code for further editing and troubleshooting, select the gear icon at the top of a Custom HTML app and select View Source.

Adjust App Height

To increase or decrease the vertical size of an app, select and drag the gripper icon at the bottom of of the pane:

Some apps, such as boards and custom apps, can automatically adjust the vertical space to display all visible data. To enable this setting, select the gear icon at the top of the app and select Settings. In the app settings menu, check the Auto Height checkbox.

Note:

If gripper icon is not present at the bottom of an app, the vertical size cannot be adjusted.

Manually adjusting the vertical size by dragging with the gripper icon will uncheck the Auto Height setting, if applicable.

The Auto Height setting can only be enabled when there is only one app in a dashboard or custom page column. Moving an app underneath one with the Auto Height setting enabled will de-select the option.

Apps that support the Auto Height setting will have it enabled when the app is installed, if there are no other apps in the column.

View an App Full Screen

You may run apps outside of the CA Agile Central application, allowing you to view the data full screen. To run an app outside of CA Agile Central, select the expand icon at the top of the app.

To exit full screen mode, select the expand icon again.

Note: Some features may not work properly when viewing an app in full screen.

View All Apps Full Screen

You may view all apps on your dashboard without the CA Agile Central menus and navigation.

The Query field in the app settings menu provides you with the ability to filter the data with SQL-style queries through the CA Agile Central Web Services API.

Install the Custom URL app to view external web resources or websites within a custom page:

Note: We are aware of a bug where the Custom URL app either returns an unhelpful error or does not load content for some URLs if the destination website does not allow iframes from pages with different origins to display. With many companies increasing the security of their webpages, this is going to be much more common. Fails occur for http:// as well as https:// depending on how the target site's security is set up.

Charts

Many of the charts that are available from the Reports Tab are also available as apps. You may add the same chart to your dashboard more than one time if you wish to view status for multiple teams separately.

Related Topics

Feedback

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